Yeah, it's Bad Bunny, and on Sunday, the Puerto Rican reggaeton megastar will become the first Latino and Spanish language artists to headline the Super Bowl halftime show.

But he's not the first to represent that small but mighty island on the world stage, from athletes to activists.

Puerto Rico has a rich history of champions, bringing pride to their

people. As we look forward to Bad Bunny's History Making Performance this weekend, we'll preview

the new season of La Brega, a podcast that tells stories of the Puerto Rican experience. This

season focuses on the stories of Puerto Rico's champions, in particular, the individuals who use their time

in the spotlight to celebrate and advocate for their home. With us now to give us a taste of what's

to come and play a few more clips is LaBriga host, former Brian Larishell producer,

former on-the-media producer, Local Girl Girl Makes Good yet again. Alana Casanova

Burgess. Hey, Alana. I'm Brian. Episode one is already out. It focuses on a specific date. January 24th,

2022. What happened on that day? Oh, boy. Okay. So we all wake up and we see these pictures of a statue in Old San Juan that's been knocked to the ground. And it's a statue of Juan Ponce de Leon. He was a Spanish conquistador. He was the first governor of Puerto Rico, but you know, a pretty violent guy. And that day, the king of Spain was coming,

right? The real, real king of Spain. And so, you know, instead of kind of packing up these two pieces

of this broken colonizer away and saying, we'll deal with this another time, it's not a huge

priority for us. The mayor of San Juan said, no, no.

The king is coming by 5.45 p.m. today.

We'll have this statue right back up.

So the episode follows this just absurd, surreal day

where we were all following online.

Like, are they going to do it? But also, wait,

why are they going to do it? What does it tell us that this is so important to the mayor of San Juan?

And also, don't we have like other people we could put on this pedestal, literally, metaphorically?

I remember the way I saw this news was someone had photoshopped a really funny bad bunny picture up until the up until the pedestal.

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